The Ghost of Christmas Present — Eduqas GCSE English Literature C720
Eduqas GCSE English Literature · C720
The Ghost of Christmas Present
Characters
What you need to know
How Dickens presents The Ghost of Christmas Present, and how the character develops across the text: generosity, plenty, and the warning of Ignorance and Want.
The key quotations for this character and how to analyse them, with the context that shapes them.
How to use the lesson's key quotations in an essay, with a short worked paragraph.
Key quotations: 'a jolly Giant', 'Come in! and know me better, man!', 'its capacious breast was bare', 'My life upon this globe, is very brief', 'If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die', 'Will you decide what men shall live, what men shall die?', 'This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want.', 'most of all beware this boy'.
Plenty and generosity, and the Ghost as Dickens's mouthpiece.
Eduqas's essay on this novel marks context as much as response and analysis: weave context into the argument, and treat the printed extract as a starting point, ranging across the beginning, middle and end of the novel.
